Based on the Drawing Compare feature in AutoCAD Architecture, this plug-in compares two versions of a drawing. Comparison differences are temporarily displayed on the Original drawing verison in the drawing area (new objects in green, modified objects in yellow, moved objects in white, deleted objects in red).

Once I install it, I start AutoCAD 2014 and 2013 and a white screen appears after the Startup box and AutoCAD freezes. I created a new AutoCAD startup shortcut with a profile that does not exist so that AutoCAD starts to create this profile from scratch but comes up with the message "AcDWGcompare.dll" not found and freezes again. Have to uninstall it to get AutoCAD to work again.

i had this app on 2014 but when i re-downloded it for 2015 it froze the bootup of 2015 as well as 2014. All i got was a white screen partial load of the program. I did a system restore anf it fixed the load problem on both 2015 and 2014 so it had to be something in the loading of the app. Any ides for me as I like the results the app gave

Hi Adam,
No. You might want to try reversing the Original & Compare versions. That way you can copyclip the Deleted Objects from Original drawing shown in red and paste them into the Compare drawing. COPYBASE is even better because then you paste with the same base/insertion point (I use 0,0).
From the Help file- Additional Information section: "During a comparison, the Original Version drawing is opened and is overlaid by representations of geometry and differences from the Compare Version drawing. Any changes you make, while DWG Compare is active, are made to the Original Version of the drawing. You can save changes you make, but you cannot merge the drawing versions. DWG Compare is not an integration tool. If necessary, you must manually integrate the differences between the original and compare versions of the drawing."
Hope that helps.

Seems like it doesn't work with objects in layout space, only in model.

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Karen Mason
| May 26, 2014

Hi Paved,
Yes- it only works in Model space. This is listed in the Help document under Additional Information:
"Only Model Space objects are compared. If necessary, the plug-in will switch to the Model tab when the comparison starts."

One thing I had: After using it a few times, today my Acad does not load the plugin, it just stopped loading, it seems to hang by the plugin.
Still the same after:
- Restart PC
- Reinstall plugin
So I had to remove the plugin :(
Also i did some cleanup with regedit
I have to give just two stars for it

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